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Rh could almost find it in their hearts to wish that the cup might pass from them. This mood is a passing cloud over Freston's

and over his 'Renunciation':

A passing mood, that works differently on different temperaments, and differently at different times on the same temperament, it edges with mordant irony Alexander Robertson's 'We shall drink to them that Sleep,' and by turns with irony and with pathos certain of the poems of